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Authors: Max Weinreich
ISBN-13: 9780300053876, ISBN-10: 0300053878
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: May 1999
Edition: 2nd Edition
This classic book examines the role of leading scholars - philosophers, historians, and scientists - in Hitler's rise to power and eventual war of extermination against the Jews. Written in 1946 by one of the greatest scholars of European Jewish history and culture, it is now reissued with a new introduction by the prominent historian Martin Gilbert.
Planning and Preparation | ||
I | The Problem Stated | 5 |
II | German Scholarship, 1918-1933. The Early Years of the Hitler Regime | 10 |
III | How the Scholars Came into the Nazi Camp | 17 |
IV | Alfred Rosenberg, the Apostle of Racialism | 22 |
V | Racial Science: Eugen Fischer, Ernst Rudin, and Others | 27 |
VI | Legal and Political Science: Hans Frank, Carl Schmitt, and Others | 36 |
VII | The Beginning of the New Anti-Jewish Science: Gerhard Kittel | 40 |
VIII | Walter Frank. The Reichsinstitut fur Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands (Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany) | 45 |
IX | The Reichsinstitut fur Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands, 1935-1938. Wilhelm Grau | 50 |
X | The Reichsinstitut fur Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands, 1938-1941. Hess, Streicher, Keitel as Patrons | 54 |
XI | Goebbels' Institut zum Studium der Judenfrage (Institute for the Study of the Jewish Question). Wilhelm Ziegler | 58 |
XII | Walter Grundmann. The Institut zur Erforschung des judischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben (Institute for the Study of Jewish Influence on German Church Life) | 62 |
XIII | Preparing for War: the Concepts of Folk and Space | 67 |
XIV | On the Eve of War: Jewry = Bolshevism. Peter-Heinz Seraphim | 75 |
XV | Walter Gross. The Stage Set for Conquest. Hitler's Prophecy | 79 |
Large-Scale Experimenting | ||
XVI | Polish Jewry in German Hands. Jewry = Plutocracy | 84 |
XVII | The Ghetto in Scholarly Theory and in Practice | 89 |
XVIII | Hans Frank's Institut fur deutsche Ostarbeit (Institute for German Work in the East) | 95 |
XIX | The Inauguration of Rosenberg's Institut zur Erforschung der Judenfrage (Institute for Research into the Jewish Question) in Frankfort on-the-Main | 97 |
XX | The Staff, the Library, and the Organ of the Frankfort Institute | 101 |
XXI | The Frankfort Conference of March, 1941. Scholarly Backing for the "Universal European Solution of the Jewish Question" | 106 |
XXII | Secrets of the Anti-Jewish Propaganda. The Representatives of the Conquered and Satellite Countries at the Frankfort Conference | 113 |
XXIII | Between the Fall of France and the Attack on the Soviet Union. The Concept of Greater Space | 119 |
XXIV | Scholarly Backing for the Assault on the Eastern Space | 126 |
XXV | Preparing for the Extinction of the Jews | 131 |
XXVI | Anti-Jewish Research Institutions on German Models in Italy, France, Lithuania, Croatia, Hungary, and Denmark | 134 |
XXVII | The Extinction of the Jews in the Eastern Territories Begins. Scholarly Theories Reappearing in Wehrmacht Orders | 140 |
XXVIII | The Extinction Procedure until the End of 1941. The Clash between Economic Interest and Political Goals | 145 |
XXIX | New Tasks for German Scholarship after Pearl Harbor: Jewry the Link between Plutocracy and Bolshevism | 158 |
Execution of the Program | ||
XXX | Jewry - the Only Front on Which Victory Could be Won. Extinction of the Jews in the Government General | 163 |
XXXI | New Developments in Racial Science: Refolking vs. Purity of Blood | 170 |
XXXII | Refolking the Letts and the Poles | 177 |
XXXIII | Splitting Up the Poles: Refolking, Enslavement, Extinction | 179 |
XXXIV | Continuing Extinction of the Jews: Revision in Theory, Consistency in Practice | 184 |
XXXV | The Scientific Aspects of the Death Factories | 195 |
XXXVI | The Jew as a Demon. Belief in Demons and Plain Deceit. Ritual Murder | 202 |
XXXVII | The Indoctrination Literature of the Wehrmacht and of the Foreign Ministry | 208 |
XXXVIII | Anti-Jewish Research Literature in the Twilight-of-the-Gods Period | 214 |
XXXIX | An International Anti-Jewish Congress in 1944 | 219 |
XXXX | Anti-Semitism an Avowed "Secret Weapon" | 235 |
XXXXI | Summary and Conclusions | 239 |
Facsimiles of Excerpts | 243 | |
Index of Persons and Institutions | 261 | |
Index of Periodicals, Serials, and Publishing Houses | 288 |